Scandal-scarred Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis says the decision to boot her off President-elect Trump’s election ...
At just 34 years old, Judge Scott McAfee has found himself presiding over the Georgia trial of a former US president and having to rule on whether the case prosecutor, his former boss, should be ...
The Georgia supreme court could uphold the district attorney’s disqualification — or cement her purge from her racketeering ...
Donald Trump asked to remove Fulton County DA Fani Willis from the case because of her romantic relationship with another ...
Judge Scott McAfee, the trial court judge, had rejected a defense claim that Ms. Willis’s relationship with the lawyer she hired had given her a financial stake in the case. But he found that ...
Trump and his co-defendants had initially asked Judge McAfee to dismiss the case entirely under the theory that an alleged romantic relationship between Willis and another prosecutor — Nathan ...
The decision, which Willis is likely to appeal to the Georgia Supreme Court, is a major victory for Donald Trump and his co-defendants and could doom the high-profile prosecution.
In a 2-1 opinion, the court concluded that Fani Willis’ onetime romantic relationship with former special prosecutor Nathan Wade merited her dismissal from the case.